Too early for Young, fans to be discouraged

NEW YORK -- They introduced Donald Young for the first time, andalready 2,000 people were packed into the stands. Fans were outside,trying to cram their way in, fighting around the documentary cameracrew. It was Day 1 of the future of American tennis Monday at theU.S. Open, and already Young, the 16-year-old Chicagoan with a Nikecontract, was creating a buzz.

The tennis world has been waiting for him since he was a 10-year-old ballboy at a tournament in Grant Park, when John McEnroe hit withhim and helped to discover him. And now, finally, Young was in hisfirst major championship, against a journeyman Italian named GiorgioGalimberti.

This should have been about …